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Paula Rego

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About Me

Shrugging off suggestions that her particular brand of off-kilter realism could be traced to Balthus, Goya or Picasso, Rego insists, "Everything comes from Disney - and Tiepolo as well, Giandomenico Tiepolo, the son."in Express/The Washington Post , 14/2/2008 Snow White Swallows the Poisoned Apple, 1995 SEE LARGER AT The Saatchi Gallery ____________________________________ El País - Cuando se comenta su trabajo se le suele relacionar con el de artistas tan diversos como De Chirico, Arshille Gorky, Balthus, Chagall. ¿ Qué opina de ellos? Paula Rego - Yo siempre he admirado mucho a Daumier, James Ensor y Goya. También me ha interesado Gorky durante una época. Chagall me interesa menos porque a veces lo encuentro demasiado sentimental. Me gustan los artistas satíricos, como el portugués Bordalo Pinheiro. (…) El País - Sus personajes suelen ser inquietantes, con un lado oscuro. ¿De dónde provienen esas ideas o historias? Paula Rego - Normalmente vienen de historias que he leído. Como Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë; El crimen del padre Amaro, de Eça de Queirós; Nada, de Carmen Laforet. Un libro precioso. A veces leo obras que me inspiran, pero mis pinturas no son ilustraciones. Son una interpretación de lo que me hacen sentir.El País - Los grandes pintores españoles han tenido también un eco en su obra: Goya, Velázquez, Miró, hasta Dalí. A usted se le ha llegado a calificar como surrealista. ¿Qué piensa de eso? Paula Rego - Yo he crecido con la pintura española. Y quizá el que más me interesa es Gutiérrez Solana. He hecho un cuadro en homenaje a él, siempre me gustó. Es una lástima que no se le conozca mucho fuera de España. Y en su lista no ha mencionado a Picasso. He vivido con reproducciones de sus obras en las paredes de mi estudio toda la vida. Además, creo que el Prado es el mejor museo del mundo. Cuando voy me siento como en casa. Adoro ir a ver los cuadros de Zurbarán, Ribera, Velázquez, Goya. Pero, sobre todo, los santos de Ribera. Es un pintor extraordinario. Y El Greco, que es tan camp y estático. Me encanta. Ir al Prado es lo mejor del mundo para mí. (…)in Entrevista a El País: Arte y Feminismo, 22/9/2007

My Interests

Vanitas Triptych (left panel), 2006 Vanitas Triptych (central panel), 2006 Vanitas Triptych (right panel), 2006Germaine Greer , 1995 Dog Woman, 1994"To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable." (Paula Rego)

I'd like to meet:

The Wide Sargasso Sea, 2000"She has always been an ardent champion of women. (…)In Jane Eyre, she has a perfect subject: obedience containing rebellion. (…)Just as Jean Rhys extracted Wide Sargasso Sea from Jane Eyre (a novel which Rego greatly admires; she even borrowed the title for a painting, a crowd scene on an evening terrace), so she has responded in her own way. In particular, she has disinterred its buried sexuality, made repression flower." - in Observer , Interview by Kate Kellaway, 2002 Metamorphosis After Kafka, 2002

Music:

Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia 1 , 1995

Movies:

The Shakespeare Room, 2005

Television:

The Dance, 1988

Books:

The Little Murderess, 1987 (Private Collection, London)

Heroes:

Pietà, 2002

My Blog

MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE Brings Paula Regos Haunting Images to U.S.

Spellbinding Storyteller Major Retrospective Brings Paula Rego's Haunting Images to U.S.by Gary Tischler. I encountered artist Paula Rego like someone reading the end of a story without knowing much ...
Posted by Paula Rego on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PST

An Enigma in Her Own Right

Editorial Review An Enigma in Her Own RightBy Michael O'SullivanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, February 22, 2008Paula Rego's pictures tell stories. Just don't expect her versions to always line u...
Posted by Paula Rego on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:13:00 PST

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Retrospective of Paula Rego's work. Till May 25, 2008. See Here....
Posted by Paula Rego on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:58:00 PST

Our Finest Female Artist - The Sunday Times, 6 April 2008

Waldemar Januszczak's long, uneasy love affair with the work of Paula Rego, our finest female artist (...) It isn't often one is granted an audience with Britain's finest female painter. Rego did not ...
Posted by Paula Rego on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:29:00 PST

Paula Rego Jane Eyre

On Tate Magazine 
Posted by Paula Rego on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:20:00 PST

At Tate Britain, 2005

The dark nights are drawing in at Tate Britain.There is something ugly about Paula Rego’s paintings. The clunky, unrefined figures that made her famous in the 80s are undeniably skilful but eq...
Posted by Paula Rego on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:30:00 PST

An Interview, The Guardian, November 2002

 By Suzie Mackenzie
Posted by Paula Rego on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:09:00 PST

Os Abismos Perversos na Pintura de Paula Rego

Habituámo-nos a ver a pintura de Paula Rego nas obras de Adília Lopes, em Agustina Bessa Luís, daí que a sua estranheza tenha sido, de alguma forma, amenizada por incorporar obras de carácter público ...
Posted by Paula Rego on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:29:00 PST